A 5-year-old boy lost his life after his babysitter allegedly horrifically abused him causing trauma to his brain and internal organs.
Laurren Jeanette Courtney is a 22-year-old self-employed entertainer in Las Vegas.
Since August, Courtney has supplemented her income by providing sitting services to a family with a 5-year-old son and a 7-year-old daughter. Courtney reportedly sat for the children between 3 and 5 days per week.
A mother who reportedly wore a boxing glove to a middle school campus is facing charges after allegedly brawling with and injuring a student in the cafeteria.
Edith Riddle is the 34-year-old mother to a girl enrolled at Dupont Middle School in Jacksonville.
During the school day on March 19, Riddle met with the principal to discuss her daughter’s behavior.
71-year-old Boyd Householder and his 55-year-old wife Stephanie live in Humansville, Missouri, where they opened the Circle of Hope Girls Ranch in 2006.
According to their mission statement, their aim was “to help young ladies who were destroying their lives through poor choices and behaviors, change their future.” They specifically provide service to “uncontrollable girls who won’t let their parents help them.” They report that their method is to use the Bible “to teach them that they are to obey their Parents [SIC] and the authority over them.”
A Utah mother with two young daughters is facing many charges after the police allegedly caught her driving during a video call while her children were without seatbelts.
19-year-old Gabriella Ann McKenzie is from Eagle Mountain. She has two daughters, ages 2 and 8 months.
In the evening on March 2, McKenzie was reportedly driving with her children in the back seat.
A woman in Clifton has been accused of recording herself while sexually abusing a 6-year-old, with a 5-year-old watching as it took place.
18-year-old Mourissa McCarthy resides in Clifton, New Jersey.
On November 27, the authorities were informed that a 6-year-old child had allegedly been abused sexually by McCarthy while a 5-year-old was in the same room and viewing.
After a man was released from jail for a child abuse conviction, he allegedly assaulted and injured his 2-month-old daughter within weeks of CPS allowing him to live at home with her.
25-year-old Luis Gabriel Krom resides in Middletown, Connecticut. He is a prior convict who served a 1-year sentence for abusing and injuring a newborn male child in 2017.
Krom also has a 2-month-old daughter.
A children’s book author and her husband who allegedly subjected their adopted children to devastating long-term abuse were taken into custody in Seminole County.
Joseph and Jennifer Wolfthal have a home in Casselberry with their 9-year-old boy and two girls, ages 8 and 11. The Wolfthals adopted all three children in 2014.
Jennifer, who spent 8-years as a 4th-grade teacher, recently published a children’s book titled “A Real Friend.”
The dean of a Florida school and his wife were arrested after it was reportedly discovered that they gave marijuana and alcohol to their teenage babysitter and her underage friends for years.
38-year-old Adam Thayer is the dean of students at the Pinellas Academy for Math and Science charter school. Thayer and his wife, 37-year-old Misty Mitchell-Thayer, reside in the unincorporated community of Palm Harbor in Pinellas County, Florida with their 7-year-old twins.
Approximately two years ago, a girl who is now 17-years-old was providing babysitting services for the Thayer’s children.
After a 3-month-old was diagnosed with a brain bleed purportedly caused by being shaken violently, the infant’s live-in nanny was taken into custody for allegedly causing the traumatic injury.
Alexis Schultz lives with a family in Brooklyn, where she provides nanny services for the two children at the residence.
On December 30, Schultz was reportedly taking care of the 2-month-old boy and his older sister.
James and Mary Mast live in Stover, Missouri, with their three children. Their 4-year-old daughter recently lost her life, purportedly at the hands of their neighbors.
The Mast family reportedly attends the same church as their neighbors, Kourtney Aumen and Ethan Mast. (Ethan is not related to the Mast family.)
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